Development and evaluation of a mental skills training program in youth hockey

This project seeks to develop a mental skills training program for kids in youth hockey. The first part of the project will involve reviewing the literature to find out what is knows about mental skills in kids. We are interested in seeing how kids can use mental skills in sports and hockey and if certain skills are more important depending on the age of the player. Once we have a good idea of what is known about mental skills in youth we will interview elite hockey players to find out what they think of mental skills training and what kinds of mental skills they think are valuable for kids. We also want to know if they thought mental skills training was available to them of if it would have been useful for them growing up as youth players. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Shawn Fraser

Student:

Kurtis Pankow

Partner:

CK Hockey Inc

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Medical devices

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